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How to install Your Wordpress Plugins & Themes

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What is Wordpress Plugins?</div>
 
In order to log into your wordpress blog go to: www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ and you'll be prompted to enter the username and password you chose. It's all very user friendly and relatively self explanatory.  
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If you want to learn the basics before we move on then I recommend you look it up on Google. There's plenty of useful free information out there. And I'm not going to waste peoples time by going into the basics of wordpress here. Instead, I'll show you everything you need to know as we go along.  
 
Now, there are two things you need to do to your website before we even start to write anything and they are: Download and configure the 2 essential plugins, and choose a `theme' for your site.  
 
We won't go into the latter here, because it fits in much better in the next chapter: Creating your killer presell story and writing the content.  
 
So, let's focus on the plugins for now. There are HUNDREDS of free plugins available to enhance your wordpress site but I never really use any but these two.  
 
Feel free to browse the selection available at your leisure, but personally, I can never be bothered.  
 
The 2 plugins you NEED are: All in one SEO pack Helps to optimize your blog for search engines Google XML Sitemaps Creates a sitemap for Google which helps SEO once again.  
 
Don't worry about what each of them do or how to configure them at this point of in time because we'll get onto that later. For now you just need to install them on your blog. And what follows is a step by step guide on how to do it. 
 
 
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How to install your  wordpress plugins & themes</div>
   
I say themes as well because it follows the same process. You won't have a theme yet but just come back and view this section when you want to install one. 
 
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Click the `Add New' option under the Plugins section.  
 
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Type in the 2 main plugins you require. First let's search for the All in One Seo Pack, once typed in hit the Search plugin button. 
 
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Locate the correct plugin, in this case we select the All in One SEO pack and hit the install Now link as show above. 
 
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Wordpress will then ask you if you are sure you want to install this plugin, hit the ok or yes button.  
 
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You simply hit the activate plugin link to finish off installing and activating your plugin. Now repeat the steps for the `Google XML Sitemaps' plugin. 
 
Alternatively you can also install your plugins via FTP. Step #1: 
 
Download the plugins from the site and unzip them. All in one SEO pack Helps to optimize your blog for search engines .  
 
Download it here: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/</a>  
Google XML Sitemaps Creates a sitemap for Google which helps SEO once again. Download it here: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/</a> 
 
Step #2: Go to your CPanel account and select unlimited FTP. Or use whatever FTP program you use normally. 
 
Step 3: This step is for guys who haven't used FTP before.  
 
Unlimited FTP is a File Transfer Protocol program (don't worry about the jargon) that basically allows you to upload and download files from your computer to your web server and thus, your website. What you'll see when you open unlimited FTP is a screen similar to this: 
 
On the left you've got your computer and you can browse through all of your files and the on the right you've got your web server. You don't need to worry about any files except public_html. So click that as shown in the diagram 
 
Step #4: If this is your first and only website on the hosting account what you'll see now will look something like this: 
 
Click on wp-content. 
 
Step #5: You will now see this on your screen. 
 
Notice how on the left hand side I've browsed to where I unzipped the plugin/theme. And on the right we will now select plugins, but if you wanted to install a theme (which we will do later) you'd need to click on the themes folder to install inside. 
 
Step #6: Once inside the plugins folder you should see this: 
 
Now all you need to do is click upload and voila: The plugin will be uploaded to your wordpress blog. Now that you've done it for the all in one SEO pack, browse to where you unzipped the sitemap plugin on the left hand side and click upload again. When we install a theme you will do exactly the same process but in the themes folder. 
 
This is all a lot easier to understand in video format, so... 
 
And Watch me Create a Wordpress Blog From Scratch and Install a Theme and Both Plugins. 
 
Okay then. You should now have your blog installed. In the next chapter we're going to talk about how to presell your visitors to maximise your profits.</div>

How to install Your Wordpress Plugins & Themes

What is Wordpress Plugins? In order to log into your wordpress blog go to: www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ and you'll be prompted to en...

9/08/2015

How to Install Wordpress in Your Site

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Wordpress, a gift from the  God's? </div>
 
To build our website we will be using a free tool called wordpress. I don't know why, but search engines LOVE Wordpress, especially Google.  
 
The difference between a traditionally built website (one built with Xsite pro, Dreamweaver etc, maybe even notepad if you're old fashioned!) and wordpress is absolutely phenomenal. 
 
Seriously, the first time a friend of mine convinced me to use Wordpress I was gobsmacked. I mean, my sniping was already pretty effective... but with Wordpress it became like taking candy for a baby... a big 500 pound baby called Google.  
 
So, why will we be using Wordpress to build our websites?  
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<li>It ranks a lot better in the search engines than if you use any other website creation tool. </li>
<li>It's free. Yep. Completely free, which saves you several hundred bucks right off the bat. </li>
<li>Anyone can use it; you don't need to know much about coding (I still can't, to this day, design even a simple website using code alone) </li>
<li>It's so much quicker to build a good looking professional site. Oh sure, for pure speed nothing beats Xsite pro for quick site. But if you want to make it visually appealing (important) then you'd need to design headers in Photoshop etc. Whereas with Wordpress, all you need do is upload a new `Theme' Of which there are THOUSANDS available to suit all types of site.</li>
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A note to the more experienced guys who are set in their ways: Look, I swore by own site creation tools too (Xsite pro for me) but just like I did, you're going to have to wake up and smell the bacon!  
 
Wordpress is the future. Sure, the first few weeks were a pain and it hasn't quite got as many options as the traditional creation suites. But, the search engines love it and the fact is that if you're NOT using wordpress then you're at a serious disadvantage.  
 
Anyway, we've established what platform our websites will be built with. What next? 
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Installing Wordpress</div>
 
Note: Read through this chapter first. Then watch video four to see exactly how to do install a wordpress blog and themes/plugins...  
 
Wordpress works a little differently to most website creation tools. Rather than install a program on your pc, you install it on your web server and to access it you have to enter a username and password.  
 
This is actually one of my gripes with wordpress, because it means you can't edit your site unless you're connected to the internet. The plus side is, of course, that you can access and edit your sites from any computer in the world.  
 
The reason wordpress works this way is because it's actually a blogging platform. Even though most people use it to create normal websites, it was originally created for blogging. 
 
So, here's how to install it. Note that I'm going to presume that you're hosting has CPanel because most hosts do nowadays. But if it doesn't for some reason then you can follow the setup instructions on the wordpress website here. 
 
Step #1 Log into your hosting account and on the main CPanel window scroll down to the software/services section and click on Wordpress icon. 
 
 
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Step #2 Then click on Install on the right hand side and you'll be presented with this screen 
 
 
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Step #3 You'll then be presented with this screen: Select Your Domain for your website and click "Check Domain". 
 
 
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Step #4 You will then be presented with this screen: 
 
 
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Where would you like Wordpress installed: </div>
There will be a drop down list of your domain names, select the one you want. For this example, my domain would be <a href="http://gotrustreview.com/">gotrustreview.com</a>.  
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Leave it blank to install it on your home page. If you put in blog, you would only see your site if you typed in domain.com/blog </div>
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Choose an admin name and password (can be whatever you want) </div>
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Site name: </div>
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Here is where you'll put your keyword, possibly followed by `review' if you're creating the entire site about one product. </div>
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Description: </div>
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Write a brief description of the site. Include the main keyword. So if the keyword was `how to get a six pack fast' this might be my description: How to get a six pack fast How I did it. If the theme of my site was my story of how I got a six pack.</div>
 
Now, that description will be displayed at the top of the blog and is not the description that will come up on search engines. For our individual post descriptions (the one that Google users WILL see) we might instead have something like:  
 
"Discover how to get a six pack fast Includes the story of how one skinny weakling got ripped abs in just four weeks plus tips on how you can get a 6 pack fast too." 
 
Notice I'm selling the visitor on the website while optimizing it at the same time with related keywords like `ripped abs' (called LSI keywords). But more on this later.</div>

How to Install Wordpress in Your Site

Wordpress, a gift from the God's? To build our website we will be using a free tool called wordpress. I don't know why, but se...

9/08/2015

Great Domain Name Secrets

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The first step to building a website is of course to register a domain name. So, that's what we're going to cover here.</div>
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The purpose of your domain name</div>
 
For this system the purpose of your domain name is basically to help your search engine rankings. If on the other hand you were creating an authority or E-commerce site you might choose something memorable, even catchy. Partly because you'd want to target tens, maybe hundreds of keywords and so a general domain name would be better. And partly because it would be more important for visitors to remember it.  
 
This isn't so with sniping. While we will try to keep in mind human visitors, they are definitely NOT the priority. The priority is pleasing the search engines and having a keyword rich domain name will help your rankings greatly.  
 
Some search engine optimization experts believe that the domain name has very little impact. But I couldn't disagree more, having an optimized domain name is damn near ESSENTIAL if you want to rank for competitive terms without building backlinks. 
 
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How to structure your domain name </div>
 
So we've established that having an optimized domain name is very important to the overall website. So, how should I structure it? Well, it's very simple. Just have the keyword as the domain name, with nothing else. If you can get .com then obviously get that, if not get .net or .org.  
 
A note on .org or .net: I've had great experience with .org domain names on Google but bear in the mind that Yahoo doesn't like them. But who uses Yahoo anyway? I don't buy that famous statistic that only 60% of searches are conducted through Google. I suspect it's closer to 90%... But anyway... I tend to go for .org over .net because it just sounds better. .org's are after all meant for non profit, pure helpful information websites. Stay away from any other extensions such as .info (which is often associated with hackers and spyware). 
 
What if you can't get `just the keyword'?  
 
What I usually do is add either review or info to the end of the domain name. Review will sometimes be taken but it's rare that info isn't available. These are just two but there are literally hundreds of words you could add to the end or beginning depending on your niche and your `presell story' - more on that later!  
 
Personally, I don't like hyphens, supposedly hyphenated domains work well because the search engines treat each word as a separate one but I've never had any luck. And when was the last time you saw a hyphenated domain in the organic results?  
 
Ok, so now you've got a domain name all we need to do is create the website.  
 
Note: I'm presuming you have a hosting account already, but if you don't then may I recommend you check out Bluehost it's the company I use, I think it's like 7 bucks a month and you can host an unlimited number of websites on that same account. I've had a few issues with regards to installing some programs but overall they've been a fantastic company to work with.</div>

Great Domain Name Secrets

The first step to building a website is of course to register a domain name. So, that's what we're going to cover here. The ...

9/08/2015

How To Get Free Basic Healthcare and Make Money

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Get Free Basic Healthcare</div>
 
Student health center offer a variety of basic healthcare services for free ('free' here meaning that these fees are included in tuition). The typical freebies that can be had include condoms, band aids, common immunizations, and over the counter meds like Tylenol. More complicated care involving, say, x-rays or splints will require payment. Chances are, you won't even be asked to show any student ID, though if you are just start complaining about it being in your dorm that's, like, really, far away... 
 
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<a href="http://howtomakemoneywe.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Free Money</a> and Healthcare </div>
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(yet again) [doing research studies]</div>
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Um...wtf? 
An absurdly easy way to make some cash or score some free healthcare is to whore yourself out as a volunteer for various research studies. The studies are typically conducted by academic institutions, private corporations (usually pharmaceuticals), as well as various other think-tank organizations.  
 
The researchers will typically be testing something, such as a new drug, the effects of heavy metal on brainwaves, group interaction under duress, and so forth, and will need research participants (human guinea pigs) to test their theories/products on. In order to lure in test subjects you'll be offered a reward (also known as a dangling carrot) consisting of either free medical treatment (if you're doing a clinical study) or/and monetary compensation.  
 
This brief section, written in FAQ form, will answer some general questions about where to find studies, how much you can expect to get paid, and other jazz. (And yes, since corporate and educational interests are so interrelated in this day and age (along with their mutually vested political interests as well), I feel that it's therefore within the proper bounds of a guide about scamming universities to mention corporate sources for research studies;)). 
 
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What kinds of studies are there?</div>
 
All kinds! A f**king rainbow of opportunity abounds. The studies range from the mundane drug tests and advertisement efficacy testing to the more fun studies like the effects of psychotropic substances and memory games, to the outright bizarre ones along the lines of going on a broccoli sprout diet or watching nature shows while hooked up to an EEG. 
 
A common misconception that may all too often arise from reading existing human guinea pig guides (like Jim Hogshire's horribly incomplete Sell Yourself to Science) is that the only studies that are out there are drug or other medical studies. There are, however, plenty of non-intrusive social science studies run by psychologists or business research firms which typically pay less than the medical studies, but don't involve any uncomfortable physical examinations. 
 
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How much do I get paid for this shit?</div>
 
Compensation varies from study to study. <a href="http://howtomakemoneywe.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Some don't pay any money</a>, but instead offer the 'benefit' of complementary medical treatment. For instance, if you go into a migraine study you may be given a free month's supply of new experimental migraine medication, but no money. Other studies may pay anything from $5-$50 an hour for a few hours, or you may get around $2000 for a month-long live-in study. Once you find a study, if the compensation isn't immediately listed, contact the study coordinator and ask what the compensation will be. 
 
Typically, the longer and more intrusive the study is, the more you'll get paid. That is to say, an hour long advertising study that requires you to rate your mood after looking at some ads may only give you $10, while a five hour study that involves an attachment of something like a catheter (<a href="http://www.malecare.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.malecare.org</a>) may offer you compensation that's more along the lines of $200. If you're uncomfortable with needles, probes, blood samples, and other general aspects of medical examination, you'll probably want to stay away from all medical studies and focus on the business and psychological studies, which tend to pay less per study but are also generally more pleasant. 
 
Remember that the cheaper studies are often easier to get into as they have less stringent requirements and an often larger desired sample size, so don't scoff at a $10 study as not being worth your time. $10 should be enough to feed you for a week or more, and the little studies tend to add up to nice sums over time. 
 
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So If I don't like needles and anal probes and all that wicked jazz, does that mean I'm stuck doing the cheapo studies?</div>
 
Not necessarily. However, there is the little matter of burning your bridges. For all studies you will have to sign a consent form, which informs you of the risks you'll be taking and general legal yadda yadda to cover the sponsor's ass. If you do read the fine print though, you'll find that all of these forms also say that you are under no obligation to complete the study, and will receive full (or at times partial) payment for your participation regardless of completion. This means that if, say, you've signed up for a medical study that also requires a blood test at the end, you could, in theory, participate into the study up until the blood draw and then state that you're not comfortable with going any further. You will be compensated for your time, and excused from the study, money in hand. Your partial participation, however, cannot be counted in the study itself and thus resources will have been wasted on you. 
 
Unofficially, what this leads to is known as blacklisting or shitlisting. When participating in studies you'll often have to identify yourself by the last four digits of your social security number (which can, of course, be entirely made up), though you will most likely be remembered by your face (identification is nearly never asked for), as the same people tend to run all of the studies at a particular research center.  
 
What this means is that, after bailing midway through an earlier study, if you show up for another one, don't be surprised if you're cordially told that "when we contacted you we didn't realize that we had already met our required quota, so we're afraid your services aren't necessary at this point in time...". In other words: you'll make <a href="http://howtomakemoneywe.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">more money</a> in the long run by sticking to studies you're comfortable with completing all the way. 
 
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Who can participate in these things?</div>
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All studies have their own unique requirements. Some will only accept smokers or pregnant 78 year old hermaphrodite albinos. Each study will have the participatory qualifications which you should look over. If you lie chances are that the proctors will be able to detect that something isn't quite right and will quick you out of the study with partial or no compensation, after which you'll get shitlisted and won't be invited to any more studies in that circle. If you don't get spotted and you're doing some sort of medical study you also run the risk of having the medications react with you in negative ways.  
 
While most studies will also likely have minimum age restrictions set at about 18 or 21 years, there are some studies which focus on juveniles (with parental consent). However, no one really checks for proof of birth date, so as long as you look old enough everything should be honky dory. 
 
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OK, where do I find these studies already?</div>
 
As most of the studies are conducted by academics, look up the phone numbers or emails for the psychology/neurology/sociology/business/medicine departments at the local universities and call them up/email them saying that you are interested in any present or future research study volunteer opportunities. Some departments will have special mailing lists you can sign up for to receive news of any upcoming studies. 
 
While on the subject of universities, walk around a few local campuses and look at the flyers posted around the thereabouts. Oftentimes you'll see a few 'research subjects wanted!' flyers hanging around. If you want to decrease the selection pool and therefore improve your own chances of being selected, go ahead and either tear off the flyers, or rip off most of the available phone stubs if there are any. 
 
You should also look through the classifieds section of the local papers (including the free community papers), as there are study notifications sometimes places in the 'help wanted' sections. 
 
The Guinea Pigs Get Paid website (which, unfortunately, only focuses on medical studies) has a comprehensive international directory of various medical trial centers: <a href="http://www.gpgp.net/directory.php" rel="nofollow">www.gpgp.net/directory.php</a> 
 
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies has a list of on-going psychedelics studies: <a href="http://www.maps.org/volunteer.html" rel="nofollow">www.maps.org/volunteer.html</a> (most of which are without compensation, though some lucrative offers do pop up if you scrutinize the list with care). 
 
Google also has a list of links to sites which pertain to various clinical trials (Google also has a listing of 'preclinical' studies, though those essentially mean animal testing, and as such are of no interest to us superior Homo sapiens) 
 
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Essentially, there's nothing to it. Simply email or call up the particular department and state that you'd like to be added to any available lists which will keep you abreast of the latest studies that are going on. 
 
When contacting a particular study coordinator, once again, simply express your interest in the study and request additional information. Keep in mind that spaces may be limited, so contact the coordinator right away (don't delay!).  
 
If you're asked to fill out a pre-trial questionnaire, or asked a few questions over the phone, it's usually best to answer truthfully with regards to any medical studies (lying about things like allergies can have the obvious adverse consequences) while fibbing on all other non-clinical questions (like 'is English your first language' if the study calls for only 'native English speakers') is usually perfectly fine. If asked about background habits like drinking (and the study is on alcohol consumption), you want to make yourself sound a bit above average, but not so outlandish so as to be an outlier on their precious data graphs. 
 
After the study is completed, feel free to send a thank you email. This will elevate you above the other masses in the subject pool and will help insure placement in future studies (yes, the studies are technically supposed to be random, but human bias, like a deadly nerve gas, always has a tendency to leak in, hopefully to your benefit). 
 
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How should I act during the study?</div>
 
You aren't being graded on your responses (unless this is a multiple-part study and you must qualify to proceed to the next stage), so generally you'll want to answer truthfully. That is, unless you want to have a little fun. If you want to f**k with the researcher's a bit (who are likely f**king with you, as the true intention of the study isn't often revealed until the post-study debriefing session), give insane answers to any of the free response questions. For instance, if you're looking at a series of pictures for various products and are asked to write down your mood, write down 'happy' for all of the products, except, say, when you get to a tube of toothpaste write down 'very angry'. If doing some sort of medical study, break down into tears and laughter sporadically, and so on... Though keep in mind that you don't want to overact so much as to be shitlisted, so restrict your monkey wrenching to a subtle level. 
 
If you're filling out bullshit survey answers, keep in mind that there may be one or more control questions to which certain answers would be impossible (such as questions asking if you've ever done a nonexistent drug), which are designed to weed out your malarkey. 
 
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What about selling blood, sperm, plasma etc...?</div>
 
The number of hoops you usually have to jump through to qualify for blood and sperm donation, coupled with the low payments and time restrictions (e.g., can only donate three times a month, etc), make most of these bodily fluid ventures highly unprofitable when compared to all of the aforementioned research study opportunities. Nonetheless, if you are interested in this sort of thing, check out Jim Hogshire's Sell Yourself to Science. 
 
Also, if you have the magical power to ovulate, and don't mind a bit of surgery, you can fetch around a couple thousand dollars per egg. There is a whole so-called subgenre devoted to egg donation, though as this is outside the scope of research studies, you're on your own to research the matter as you please... <a href="http://howtomakemoneywe.blogspot.com/">howtomakemoneywe.blogspot.com</a></div>

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How to make Money Reselling Rare Books

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Yet another way to score some mullah is to take advantage of extensive university library networks to resell copies of otherwise rare books. Do some research on out of print and rare book resellers such as <a href="http://www.alibris.com/" rel="nofollow">www.alibris.com</a> to find out which books are the hardest to get and also the most expensive. Then hop on over to your local university's library site and see if they happen to have a copy. If they don't, don't despair quite yet.  
 
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University libraries typically provide an interlibrary loan service (ILL) (free to students and faculty, a small fee for everyone else) that lets you request any titles not in the college's own library that they will then try to get from somewhere else. 
 
If the book is at your local library, merely procure it without checking it out (see the free library books section above), remove any identifiable markings, and put the book up on a rare/used book reseller site at a price that's somewhat lower than the cheapest version already available. 
 
If you can only procure the book through the interlibrary loan, proceed to make photocopies of the book (see the free photocopies section above), and then just put those up for sale. Don't worry, this is not an uncommon practice for particularly rare books, just don't forget to mention that these are indeed "high quality" photocopies of the actual tome in your product description. For More Money making tips and idea visit us <a href="http://howtomakemoneywe.blogspot.com/">HowToMakeMoneywe.blogspot.com</a></div>

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How to Get Free Textbooks Tips for Students

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Let's start with techniques to procure 100% free textbooks, and then move on to talking about various penny-shaving techniques.</div>
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Review Copies. Publishers regularly send out gratis review or 'press' copies of books to various periodicals so as to garner some (hopefully positive) publicity for the tome in question. After procuring a list of required textbooks, you can then note their publishers and proceed to find out the mailing addresses and/or fax numbers for their publicity departments (browse their websites or call/email and ask them). For instance, Harvard University Press' site states "if you would like to request a review copy of one our books, please: Fax your request on your publication's letterhead to..." (<a href="http://hup.harvard.edu/journalists/review_copies.html" rel="nofollow">hup.harvard.edu/journalists/review_copies.html</a>). 
 
Next, design a little logo for your periodical, and write a full (<a href="http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/letters/l/bl_block_p.htm" rel="nofollow">http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/letters/l/bl_block_p.htm</a>) or modified (<a href="http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/letters/l/bl_mblock_p.htm" rel="nofollow">http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/letters/l/bl_mblock_p.htm</a>) block letter, providing a brief explanation of your periodical (target audience, numbers of subscribers, etc), as well as the request for the book(s) which are to be reviewed in an upcoming issue (don't forget to include the ISBN in your request). Keep the letter pithy and short; it shouldn't exceed one page. 
 
You can then proceed to either snail-mail or fax your request to the publisher. Unless you go the full nine yards and register a domain name that matches the name of your periodical, I wouldn't recommend emailing the publisher, as a request for a professional book coming from a yahoo account may raise a few eyebrows. 
 
After receiving your book, if you want to remain on good terms with the publisher so as to be able to request more textbooks in the future, go ahead and write a small review of the book and send it back to the publisher, complete with a little personal note attached saying something along the lines of 'here's an advance copy of the review, it'll appear in next quarter's issue!' Publishers want copies of reviews (particularly those of the positive, but not fawning, variety) to use excerpts from them in their own publicity stunts, as well as in those 'Praise For...' pages oft seen in books. 
 
[A small aside: your review copy will come with a nifty 'promo sheet' providing bullet-style points of the main features of the book. These things are literally designed for reviewers who don't get around to reading the full book anyway, so feel free to use these points in your own review. In fact, if you do a search for all reviews of a particular book, you may start noticing that many of them actually say the exact same shit verbatim...now you know why ;)]. 
 
Nota Bene: Press review copies are not the same thing as professor/instructor review copies. Many textbook publishers also offer review copies of books to instructors who are considering using the books for their courses (thereby, at least in theory, guaranteeing the publisher fuckloads of that sexy green). The catch, however, is that these review copies are often time-based trials, meaning you may have to send the book back after 60 days or so, and require you to provide all sorts of fun info like your department/university, phone number, etc. Though if you're interested in testing the waters in this area, go right ahead :) (for an example of instructor review copy offers, as opposed to the aforementioned press review copies, see <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/reviewCopy.nav" rel="nofollow">www.sagepub.com/reviewCopy.nav</a>). 
 
Shoplifted Copies. Stealing (err...liberating excess surplus or reasserting use value rights of reclaimed brainwork commodities) books is easy as shit. Beginning and aspiring shoplifters would do well to start out jacking treeware to get their game down and their confidence up. 
 
Most books do not come with any sort of electronic article surveillance (EAS) anti-theft measures. For the most part, they do not have tags both on the inside/outside like CDs or DVDs. There is, however, a relatively new craze fueled by all this recent RFID noise called source-tagging. A very small percentage of books in the market today thus potentially have a small RFID chip imbedded in their spine. This is not the same thing as the blatantly obvious magnetic strip found in library book spines (and discussed in the previous section). Chances are you will not be able to determine if the book has this spine source-tagging. 
 
The good news, though, is twofold. First of all, I have never seen or heard of a source-tagged book being out in the wild, that is to say outside of being talked about in trade publications, these contraptions are apparently not actually being used in books as of yet (note that I say in books, they are certainly already being used in DVDs, CDs, and so on), but as the technology itself exists, and is clearly being marketed for the purpose of inventory/loss prevention, this may all change very soon. This then brings us to the second piece of good news: as these source-tags are based on radio-frequencies, all one has to do to defeat them is wrap the book completely in a few layers of tin foil, or place it in a bag/backpack that is also completely lined with impermeable foil. Shoplifters call this a magic bag, physicists prefer to call it a Faraday cage. Look it up in a physics textbook you just procured :-P. Alternatively, you can just run a knife through the tag to break the circuit and render the tag impotent. 
 
Aside from the 90% of books with no protection, and the 1% (I'm pulling numbers out of a hat...which is to say my ass) of potentially source-tagged books, a small percentage of books have a primitive stick-on RF barcode sticker. These puppies typically look like so: 
 
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Figure 4. A RF barcode sticker that functions as a security device, complete with a tank circuit on its back. The tag can be made useless by breaking the circuit, for instance by slicing through the sticker with a razorblade or Xacto knife. 
 
 
The shiny circuit side is usually adhesive and is either stuck unto the inside/outside covers of the book, or simply tossed betwixt the pages, without the paper from the sticky side even being removed. In case of the former, one can easily either peel the tag off or use the aforementioned magic bag technique.  
 
In case of the latter, simply flip through the book and toss out the tags (keep in mind that there may be more than one in the same book), or—better yet—stick the tags on unsuspecting consumers to help create confusion in the store as the EAS towers start beeping each time every other shopper walks out ;). 
 
Remove the tag (if any) or foil-wrap the tome you desire, and then simply walk out holding the book by your side. One may wish to use a random receipt (that nonetheless obviously resembles those given out from the store, i.e. go fish one out of the trash outside) as a credibility prop, and either have the receipt prominently sticking out of the books, or (even better) pretend to be carefully looking over the receipt—to make sure you didn't get scammed by the store, of course!—as you walk out. 
 
Nota Bene: The advantage of lifting books from a college bookstore around the start of the semester is that the places will be crowded as all hell. The disadvantage is that this may also be the time the college wastes more of your tuition on hiring special loss prevention officers (typically uniformed so as to serve as grisly, intimidating deterrents) to watch over the college bookstore.  
 
If you're therefore feeling particularly nervous, fuck the high-stress college scene altogether and go over to your favourite retail chain with minimal-to-the-point-of-being-virtually-nonexistent security (Barnes & Noble comes to mind in the US). If the retail chain store doesn't have the particular textbooks that you need (they probably wont), you'll want to be sure to go there a few weeks before you'll actually need the books for classes or whatnot, and have them place an order for you at the store. They'll ask for a name/address/phone, all of which aren't verified, so no worries there. 
 
'Found' Copies. Walk around campus. Look around cafeteria tables, libraries, student halls/commons rooms, study kiosks, and so on. Chances are you'll find a bunch of textbooks that have been forgotten.  
 
Hell, why not have a try at the lost and found as well. Books from courses you're not taking can still be appropriated and then exchanged for cash at college book buyback events at the ends of semesters, or sold online. Want a copy of the teacher's version of the book? Stop by zir office when ze's (gotta love these 'gender-neutralizing' pronouns ;)) not around and help yourself. 
 
And yes, this involves stealing shit from your "fellow students" (all of whom are marvelous, virtuous people, may we all be so blessed as to be given the opportunity to shower in their shit...that surely goes without saying), so if you've got any moral hang-ups about this particular technique, there's plenty of others offered in this text. Simply gloss over this one and spend the time fuming about it masturbating to your Mother Teresa pics instead. 
 
Other Digital Copies. Aside from scanned books, you can also check out projects like Wikimedia's Free Textbook Project (now called Wikibooks), at <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page</a>. Most "classics" used in classes that are out of copyright are also legally available from Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org), which currently has 20,000+ ebooks online. You can also take a quick look through the online databases that your school may have access to (see the free ebooks and journals section above), on the off chance that a book used in the course comes to mind. The NetLibrary database may be particularly handy if your college has a subscription to it. 
 
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Now that I've covered a few simple methods for procuring free textbooks, there are also a couple common sense things you can do to chop a few bucks off the cover price: 
 
'Missing' Copies. After placing a bulk order from your online vendor of choice, wait a couple days after you receive all of the package(s) for your order, and then call up customer service and start complaining. "What kinda game are you sneaky motherfuckers trying to play here? Only 11 out of my 15 books showed up, planning on sending the others any time soon?" Obviously you don't want to be quite that rude, but you do want to come off as being rightly pissed off at the merchant for fucking up your order.  
 
Adding in something along the lines of "my classes start in two days!" will also net you free overnight shipping for the 'missing' copies. It should be equally obvious that you'll only be able to pull this con once from the same company, and that it is most effective on bulk orders, where a certain percentage of bungling is only to be expected. You can then return the duplicate to a bookstore for store credit, or hawk them online or to "fellow students" (there's that term again...) for a cheaper price in exchange for some good ol' cashito. 
 
Used Copies. The used textbooks at the local college bookstore are going to be overpriced as shit, no doubt there. Visit a local used bookstore outside of the college, and you're bound to find some cheaper buys.  
 
The standard big wheelers like Amazon and B&N also offer used books, as do auction sites and sites devoted to selling used books like <a href="http://www.campusbooks.com/" rel="nofollow">www.campusbooks.com</a> or <a href="http://www.urshelf.com/" rel="nofollow">www.urshelf.com</a>. But now we're drifting off into the world of the dreadfully mundane, so time to bring this section to a close :).</div>

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How to Find Free Books from the Library BlackHat Tricks

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Library books are often tagged with a thin metallic strip, typically found either betwixt the book's original spine and library's cover (see the accompanying images), or glued alongside the pages on the inside of the book, in the margins. In case of the former, jam a pen or a small Xacto knife into the gap between the covers, and pry the strip loose.  
 
It'll take you a couple minutes to get the strip out of there—a set of pliers or, better yet, tweezers will also be of great help to you in this endeavor. If, however, the strip is inside the book between the pages, chances are you'll have to cut out the page that the strip is attached to at the spine, and then after cutting out the strip from the page, tape the page back in. 
 
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Figure 2. Here you can see the metallic EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) strip between the covers. As described above, use a pen, Xacto knife blade, pliers, or tweezers to detach it. 
 
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To locate the strip, hold a book up to the light and pear into the gap between the cover, you should see a small, slightly reflective strip. Alternatively, if the strip is between the pages on the inside, look at the edge of the book and you should see that one page seems to stick out slightly. That or simply flip through the book and look for the strip. If you feel that you've thoroughly glanced over the book and still can't find the strip, guess what, the book just might not be tagged. Not all library books are, just like neither are all of the products in stores. 
 
If you don't feel like putzing around with all of this defanging business, consider simply tossing the desired book out of the library window and then retrieving it outside. If the book is particularly fragile, wrap it in bubble wrap and/or a towel, and use some tape to seal the deal. 
 
Oh, and the library book may also have a barcode sticker on it for cataloguing purposes. The barcode/sticker won't set off the alarm by itself (that is, unless it's got an RF tag on its back, see Figure 4 in the following section, though that's uncommon for library books), but you should peel that shit off nonetheless. Fuck barcodes.</div>

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How to Get Free Miscellanea from Other Students

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One of the juiciest cows to milk on campus is none other than the student zirself. Spoiled (if you attend a university you are spoiled, financial aid or scholarships notwithstanding, you're still sucking on someone's tit, so don't **king kid yourself) students often leave their belongings unattended, ripe for the picking. Here are a few prime locales and situations to exploit. 
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Libraries. Find a particularly isolated and lucrative study area where a student has that nice laptop or mp3 player you want, and wait for zir to leave the goodies unattended. A trip to the bathroom, a cell phone call, a study break, or even the succumbence into a dream realm (read: taking a nap); all present the perfect opportunity to whisk away that coveted item. 
 
Dorm rooms. Dorm rooms are routinely left unlocked. To help assure that there will be no occupants at your desired time of entry, gain access to a dormitory, press the fire alarm, and then proceed to clean out the rooms, putting the gear into a backpack and leaving through a side door. Should you actually stumble into a room that's not empty, take on the authoritative role of a resident assistant and chastise the students for not evacuating the room, proceeding to explain how remaining in a room during a fire alarm is grounds for expulsion and so on and so forth in a similar vein. 
 
Mass herd gatherings. Any social clustering is ripe for pillaging. Parties, athletic events, assemblies, nightclubs, and so on, all present various opportunities to collect unattended items. A particular item of interest to look for is the ever-present unattended purse. Take one from under the seat in an assembly, left at the side of the table at a nightclub, or from under the bleachers at a sporting event.</div>

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How To Download Free Software and Be Secure

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Universities often offer students free maintenance and protection software (anti-virus programs, firewalls, and so on), usually with the end-user agreement being modified to say that you must uninstall the software when you cease to be a student ;).  
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Simply browse to your college's IT department website, and look around for the student software section. You may have to enter your 'name' and the course you plan to use this software in, though you don't always have to enter a username/password as long as you're already accessing the site from within the university's network (i.e., from a library computer).  
 
Download the software, along with any necessary instructions or serial numbers, and either upload it to a public file hosting site such as <a href="http://www.mihd.net/" rel="nofollow">www.mihd.net</a> and then email the link to yourself, or put it on a flash drive or whatnot.</div>

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How to Get Free Internet in Your Area

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Free internet access can be procured from university libraries using at least four methods: 
 
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<li>If all computers require a login, approach the librarian and ask for a guest login/password. Some university libraries routinely issue temporary logins for guest patrons, so this should be no big deal.</li>
<li>Try unplugging the Ethernet cord from one of the library computers and plugging it into your own laptop. Alas, some universities require the registration of every new MAC address with a student login/password before you can get on the university network.</li>
<li>If neither of the first three options work, you can always try the age-old technique of shoulder surfing. Just lurk behind a student as ze enters his username/password, and then login using zir credentials later on.</li>
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If you don't want to use the library computers, and the university's wired and wireless networks both require the registration of each MAC address (the hardware address of your Ethernet or wireless card) with a student's login (and you couldn't shoulder surf a legitimate student's login), what you can still do is engage in a little warwalking over by the dorm areas.  
 
Chances are that you'll stumble onto a local unprotected wireless router that someone has running in their dorm room, and that you won't need to register for, since it'll be going through the main computer of the student in question. </div>

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How to Get Free Photocopies

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Unfortunately, there is no relatively straightforward way to obtain free copies as there is for free printing. There are, however, various tricks folks have done to score some free copies on different machines. Here are some hopefully helpful links and suggestions: 
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<a href="http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/241/48/" rel="nofollow">http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/241/48/</a> - One idea to defeat coin mechanisms is to insert the coin, quickly press the Start button on the copy machine, and then immediately hit the coin return knob. 
 
<a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/EW8JTRWKO9ERIE1UQD/" rel="nofollow">http://www.instructables.com/id/EW8JTRWKO9ERIE1UQD/</a> - Another suggestion also aimed at the coin mechanism is to short circuit the mechanism with a paperclip, MacGyver style, yo! 
 
<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/28/13714/7587" rel="nofollow">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/28/13714/7587</a> - A third option is to disable the coin/card reading mechanism through the copier's software configuration interface. (Note that the interface will probably be inaccessible until you put a coin in or swipe your card the first time to unlock it). 
 
If playing around with the hardware (trying to disconnect the coin/card reader from the copier) or the software (trying to disable the copier's recognition of the reader via the configuration menus) doesn't work out, you could try searching the manufacturer's website for manuals for the copier as well as the card reader.  
 
Keep in mind that sometimes technicians leave the copier manuals inside the copier, so don't be afraid to take a quick look-see inside. As last ditch effort, call up the manufacturer of the card or coin reading mechanism and explain that you're having trouble getting the copier to interact with the device, but when you tried to disconnect it, the copier wouldn't work, and so on...Though don't expect them to just hand you the info ;). 
 
Alternatively, if you're still having absolutely no luck with the student copier, you could try to locate a different and perhaps more easily exploitable copy machine. Find the locations of various departmental offices and waltz right into one.  
 
These are surprisingly open and vacant during regular weekday hours, and it is not all too uncommon for a lazy professor to send a student to get some photocopying done for zir. It is further not at all uncommon for each department to have its own photocopy machine, complete with a departmental access card that allows for unlimited copies. Once you're in the office, simply look around for the card, which should be somewhere near the copier, if the department has one.  
 
You can take a quick glance at the names of some professors in that department from the mailboxes which will probably be nearby, so if you're questioned you'll be ready with "Professor ... asked me to copy this...zine?!"</div>

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How to Get Free Printing

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Many universities charge for printing by making you go through some bullshit third-party program that requires you to swipe your ID card, with the program then deducting the total cost from the account on your card. So the printing process typically looks something like this: your computer-->third-party software/payment verification-->printer.  
The obvious solution is to then cut out the middleman and make the file you want printed go straight from your computer to the printer.  
 
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This can be achieved by connecting directly to the printer in one of two ways: hooking your laptop (or the nearest library computer) up to the printer with an Ethernet cable (the one that looks like a slightly oversized phone cable), or by sending the data directly to the printer's IP address. 
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Chances are the big fancy university printer will have one or more Ethernet jacks for you to plug into. Plug one end of the cord into an empty jack on the printer, and the other end into your computer's Ethernet port and on Windows the Add New Printer Wizard should pop up within a few seconds. If not, proceed to play around with the printer setup features on your operating system, as you normally would when setting up a new printer. Keep in mind that if the printer only has one Ethernet jack, and you unplug the existing cord to put yours in, you'll be knocking the printer offline and therefore others won't be able to print to it, so be sure to plug it back in when you're done. 
 
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The first thing you need to do is find the printer's IP address. Wobble on over to the actual printer and play around with the menu buttons on the printer until you get to a screen that says something along the lines of 'print printer configuration page,' (the exact directions vary from printer to printer, so play around with all of the menu options and you'll find it sooner or later. That, or you can always try going to the manufacturer's website and get a copy of the printer manual, which should have instructions on printing the configuration page). Once you get to the area that has the configuration settings, select that feature and the printer will print out a page listing all of its specifications. Somewhere on that page you'll see the IP address. Bingo bango! 
 
Nota Bene: Some crafty network admins (or bored students) could have password-protected the printer's menu options, so you won't be able to navigate to the configuration settings area. To get around this you can either try to reset the printer (download the printer's manual from the manufacturer's website), or you could try your luck with giving the manufacturer a call and explaining that you're locked out of the printer, so could they be ever so kind as to guide you though the reset process? ;) 
 
At any rate, after you've got the IP the next step is to setup the printer on your (or the library's) computer.  
 
On Windows systems, click on Start-->then Settings-->then Printers and Faxes-->then right-click and click on Add A Printer-->click Next-->select 'Local printer attached to this computer' not 'network printer...', and the 'Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer' should be unchecked as well-->select 'Create a new port' and under 'Type of port' pick 'Standard TCP/IP Port' and hit Next-->hit Next again (at the new 'Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard' screen)-->Enter the printer's IP where it says 'Printer Name or IP Address' and the Port Name field should automatically be filled in-->hit Next-->hit Finish-->once the 'Add Printer Wizard' pops up, select the manufacturer and model number and hit Next to install the printer drivers-->after the drivers install, select what you want to call the printer and hit Next again-->decide if you want to share the printer with others on the same network and hit Next-->print a test page to make sure your setup worked, and click Next one more time-->Assuming your test page printed, you should now see the 'you have successfully completed the Add Printer Wizard...' screen, click Finish. Congrats, you should now be able to print directly to the printer, bypassing any third-party payment bullshit. 
 
You can find similar instructions for adding a printer via IP for Mac systems (http://itc.virginia.edu/desktop/mac/osxprinting/osxprinting.html#lpr)/*nix systems (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_via_TCP/IP_network or perhaps http://www.inyurl.com/y4qosh) online as well. 
 
If the above instructions are too long for you (awww...:(), some manufacturers have their own specialty programs that may make the setup a wee bit easier. For instance, for HP printers you can use their Internet Printer Connection interface, located at <a href="http://www.hp.com/pond/j900a/" rel="nofollow">www.hp.com/pond/j900a/</a> (it'll require you to have Java installed, though there is an older executable file version floating around as well). 
 
Keep in mind that while your computer doesn't need to be online on the same network whilst you're installing the printer/actually printing to it, you must be connected to the internet in general in order to be able to make contact with the printer (in other words, you can do this setup from your non-university internet connection at home, so long as you actually are connected to the internet). 
 
And now that you have the printer's IP, and if the printer happens to be made by Hewlett Packard, you can play around with a little program called Hijetter (<a href="http://www.phenoelit.de/hp/" rel="nofollow">http://www.phenoelit.de/hp/</a>), which lets you mess around with the printer's environment variables, as well as change the message the printer displays (the Phenoelit folks recommended changing 'Ready' to read something like 'Insert game token' :-D). 
 
A great resource for further printer hacking (including tips on how to defeat printer passwords in some instances, as well as further instructions on setting up your computer to print directly to the printer's IP) is Irongeek's Hacking Network Printers site: <a href="http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/networkprinterhacking" rel="nofollow">http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/networkprinterhacking</a>. Give it a look. 
 
Finally, if can't get the printer's IP there may still be ways to hack the middle-man program. For instance, sandmander describes a way to transform PrintWise stations into free release station by clicking on the 'G' in the corner, entering the default login/password (admin/admin) and then manipulating the options,</div>

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How to Get Free Furniture, Hardware, and other Crapola

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Dumpster Diving. Find out when the last exams are over in the summer and all the students begin to move out. Visit the dumpsters daily that week to find heaps of discarded furniture, hardware, and other junk.  
 
Don't forget to check out the dumpsters in nearby apartments at the same time as well. (If you're interested in more info about dumpster diving, check out John Hoffman's classic The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving (as well as his sequel, Dumpster Diving. 
 
Freecycling. The Freecycling Network is a series of groups around the world consisting of folks who exchange shit that they no longer need for themselves. Members post requests or offers via online messaging boards (e.g., 'Free Couch – Come Get it!') and whoever's first to reply and express interest can come pick up the unwanted item for free. Many students are now setting up their own college-specific freecycle networks (or their differently-named equivalents, as 'freecycle' is apparently now considered a trademark or some such douchebaggery). To find out if there's a freecycle group at your local college, check out <a href="http://www.freecycle.org/" rel="nofollow">www.freecycle.org</a>. If there's not, print out a few flyers (see the free printing/copying sections below), setup a message board (like a free, albeit ad-laden, Yahoo Group), and start one the fuck up (though give it a different name to avoid any legal trouble).</div>

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